Gomantak review by Jason K. Fernandes

Carvalho tells the story of a number of persons, who would have otherwise slipped outside of the telling of Goan history. Otherwise uncelebrated Caitans and Joãos, who no doubt went to their grave thinking they were nobodies. But Selma also tells these stories twined with her own. Like Maria Aurora Couto before her, Selma too tells a daughter’s story. This positioning of both these Goan raconteurs within the bosom of family is perhaps not coincidental.